Design

The Cabin of the Future Is Smaller, Simpler, and Prebuilt

Architect Julien Nolin’s Quebec prefab company Base Habitation is building high-performance cabins around local manufacturing and simplified designs.

Design

A Guide to Design Week Montreal 2026

Where to be, what to see, and how to make the most of the city's first-ever design week.

Design

Is Montreal a World Capital of Placemaking? That Depends on What Comes Next.

From spontaneous public life to decades of cultural investment, a case for Montreal as a global placemaking capital—and what it will take to keep it.

Design

Cinema Cinema's New Look Was Inevitable

Deux Huit Huit's new identity for Cinema Beaubien, Cinéma du Parc, and Cinéma du Musée starts with a name that was always there.

Design

Estudio Niksen Defines Itself—and Finds Success—in the Art of Doing Nothing

The Saint-Henri brand built itself on the Dutch philosophy of doing nothing. The result is some of the most intentional fashion coming out of Montreal.

Design

Who Will the Entrepôt Van Horne Belong To?

Plans are in motion for the century-old warehouse, but whether it becomes what the neighbourhood needs is another question entirely.

Design

The Cabin of the Future Is Smaller, Simpler, and Prebuilt

Architect Julien Nolin’s Quebec prefab company Base Habitation is building high-performance cabins around local manufacturing and simplified designs.

Design

A Guide to Design Week Montreal 2026

Where to be, what to see, and how to make the most of the city's first-ever design week.

Design

Is Montreal a World Capital of Placemaking? That Depends on What Comes Next.

From spontaneous public life to decades of cultural investment, a case for Montreal as a global placemaking capital—and what it will take to keep it.

Design

Cinema Cinema's New Look Was Inevitable

Deux Huit Huit's new identity for Cinema Beaubien, Cinéma du Parc, and Cinéma du Musée starts with a name that was always there.

Design

Estudio Niksen Defines Itself—and Finds Success—in the Art of Doing Nothing

The Saint-Henri brand built itself on the Dutch philosophy of doing nothing. The result is some of the most intentional fashion coming out of Montreal.

Design

Who Will the Entrepôt Van Horne Belong To?

Plans are in motion for the century-old warehouse, but whether it becomes what the neighbourhood needs is another question entirely.

Design

A fictional designer of very real experiences

André Brown doesn't exist per se, but the branding created under that name shows how hospitality can think differently about storytelling, atmosphere, and emotional design.

Design

A new city gateway and memorial with the Montreal Irish Monument Park

An incoming commemorative park design makes the Black Rock accessible for the first time with public space honouring 6,000 Irish famine victims and the Montrealers who tried to save them.

Design

207 Ouest: The emotional inventory of a Mile End design shop

A subterranean curation according to coups de cœur from Myriam and Jeanne Élie of MYEL.

Design

The Mile End tale of El Greco

Tattoos and redemption: A portrait of an upholsterer on Parc Avenue.

Design

Design according to life in Montreal: The work of MRDK

For Guillaume Ménard and David Dworkind and their Montreal studio MRDK, they're making the city's streets come alive through design.

History Lesson

Design

How Montreal falls in and out of love with Brutalist architecture

How Montreal’s unapologetic concrete giants went from symbols of modernist utopia to polarizing relics—and why the city just can’t quit them.

Design

A fictional designer of very real experiences

André Brown doesn't exist per se, but the branding created under that name shows how hospitality can think differently about storytelling, atmosphere, and emotional design.

Design

A new city gateway and memorial with the Montreal Irish Monument Park

An incoming commemorative park design makes the Black Rock accessible for the first time with public space honouring 6,000 Irish famine victims and the Montrealers who tried to save them.

Design

207 Ouest: The emotional inventory of a Mile End design shop

A subterranean curation according to coups de cœur from Myriam and Jeanne Élie of MYEL.

Design

The Mile End tale of El Greco

Tattoos and redemption: A portrait of an upholsterer on Parc Avenue.

Design

Design according to life in Montreal: The work of MRDK

For Guillaume Ménard and David Dworkind and their Montreal studio MRDK, they're making the city's streets come alive through design.

History Lesson

Design

How Montreal falls in and out of love with Brutalist architecture

How Montreal’s unapologetic concrete giants went from symbols of modernist utopia to polarizing relics—and why the city just can’t quit them.